| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | "Un-Corked" - Kick-Off Party for Salinas Valley Food & Wine FestivalPresented by Salinas Valley Food and Wine Festival at Downtown Salinas October 5, 2012 Friday evening October 5th marks the kick-off for the Salinas Valley Food & Wine Festival. We start it off with what else other than a "Kick-Off Party appropriately name "Un-Corked". Its happening in Old Town Salinas and will include food, spirits, wine and live entertainment. Mark your calendar, more information to come. | Salinas Valley Food and Wine Festival | 10/05/12 | Salinas |
17th Annual Monterey Bay Reggae FestPresented by Monterey Bay Reggae Fest July 27-July 29, 2012 The 17th Annual Monterey Bay Reggaefest 2012 is a 3-day celebration that will take place on the last weekend of July 27th - 29th 2012, at the Monterey County Fairgrounds, in Monterey, CA. The Monterey Bay Reggaefest is more than an event, it is a cultural celebration and is received by many groups of people from all walks of life.
Known as one of the best reggae festivals in Northern California, the event offers activities and enjoyment for the entire family. Look... | Monterey Bay Reggae Fest | 07/27/12- 07/29/12 | Monterey |
1st Fridays Art WalkPresented by Artistas Unidos at Downtown Salinas March 2, 2012-January 1, 2013 1st Fridays Art Walk features more than 50 venues with art openings, live music, dance, book signings, lectures, poetry, open mic, food, wine tastings, children's creation stations, and much more. This FREE event for all ages is family-friendly and takes place the 1st Friday of every month, year-round, rain or shine in Oldtown Salinas. Join the community for an evening of fun, friends, and the arts! | Artistas Unidos | 03/02/12- 01/01/13 | Salinas |
45th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic FestivalPresented by Brickman Marketing at Monterey County Fairgrounds July 7-July 8, 2012 45TH ANNUAL MONTEREY SCOTTISH GAMES & CELTIC FESTIVAL TO RETURN TO THE MONTEREY COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS AND WILL BE HELD JULY 7 AND 8, 2012
Mark your calendars and save the date! The award-winning Scottish Society of the Monterey Peninsula and the Salinas Jaycees will hold the 45th Annual Monterey Scottish Games & Celtic Festival (www.montereyscotgames.com - (831) 682-2022) on Saturday and Sunday, July 7th and 8th, 2012, from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The festival will be returning to... | Brickman Marketing | 07/07/12- 07/08/12 | Monterey |
4th of July in the Park and Car ShowPresented by Monterey County Parks Dept. at San Lorenzo Park July 4, 2012 Join MCARLM and the local community for a fun filled celebration in beautiful San Lorenzo Park. This annual event includes live entertainment, vendors and concessions, family activities area, classic car and tractor show, museum exhibitions and tours including a working blacksmith shop and much more! The patriotism starts at the entrance of the park as attendees travel along the avenue of honor and through the avenue of flags into the scenic county park, a perfect location... | Monterey County Parks Dept. | 07/04/12 | King City |
Aromas DayPresented by Aromas Hills Artisans and Aromas Hills Artisans at Aromas Grange August 26, 2012 Come enjoy a “Day in the Country”. Start the day as early as 7:30am with a country style breakfast at the Aromas Grange. At 9am the street fair opens with Art at the Park-featuring the Aromas Hills Artisans, Music all day from the bandstand. There are pony rides, a farm animal petting zoo, games for kids and the popular rock climbing wall! Be sure to be there at 2pm for the Parade with tractors, classic cars, horseback... | Aromas Hills Artisans | 08/26/12 | Aromas |
Call for Artists: First Night Monterey 2013 Presented by First Night Monterey at Historic Downtown Monterey May 3-November 30, 2012 First Night Monterey, Monterey County's premier New Year's Eve celebration of the arts is in its 20th year, and the event on New Year's Eve 2012 promises to be the best one yet! This year's theme is "Celebrate Monterey" , and First Night is inviting visual and performing artists to submit their applications to be part of a family friendly, alcohol-free celebration to ring in 2013 in style. YOU ARE INVITED TO SUBMIT A PROPOSAL that will help Celebrate Monterey on... | First Night Monterey | 05/03/12- 11/30/12 | Monterey |
Concert 1 - DelicacyPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center October 19-October 21, 2012 John O’Conor hand-delivers his country’s best kept secret, the music of Irish composer John Field, inventor of the piano nocturne and inspiration to a legion of pianist/composers like Chopin, Brahms and Liszt. O’Conor’s protégé, Heidi Hau, winner of the 1998 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, delivers an ebullient performance of Haydn’s Keyboard Concerto No. 11. Mozart’s Double Concerto is like listening to three classical... | Monterey Symphony | 10/19/12- 10/21/12 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 2 - PowerPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram... | Monterey Symphony | 11/16/12- 11/18/12 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 2 - PowerPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center November 16-November 18, 2012 From the opening chords of Verdi’s La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny) to the return of the majestic brass in Sibelius’s Symphony No. 1, there is no question that sheer power in an orchestra can evoke a thrill in the most casual of listeners. These works are not for the faint of heart. San Francisco-based pianist Tanya Gabrielian, winner of the 2010 Carmel Music Society Young Musicians Competition, commands the bold and sometimes mysteriously sinuous melodies of Aram... | Monterey Symphony | 11/16/12- 11/18/12 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 3 - IntrospectionPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center January 25-January 27, 2013 In Toldrá and Turina, we find flower covered hills, shimmering seas and a Bullfighter’s Prayer with all its contemplation and courage evoked in lush and pure strings. Max Bragado-Darman conducts this all-strings program—reflective and authentic of his native Spain, the noble concert halls of Vienna and the satisfaction of Bohemian life as conveyed in Dvo?ák’s Serenade for Strings. In her Monterey Symphony debut, Bulgarian born Anna Petrova performs... | Monterey Symphony | 01/25/13- 01/27/13 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 4 - RevolutionPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center March 22-March 24, 2013 Revolution takes many forms. Though a “modern” composer, Rodrigo had nostalgia for courtly music of days long past, which pervades Three Old Dance Airs (1928/29), a perfect introduction to two works by early-Romantic masters on the cusp of revolution. Jean Louis Steuerman performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a display of technical and compositional bravado which showcases Beethoven’s own pianistic talents. Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, steeped in the past of... | Monterey Symphony | 03/22/13- 03/24/13 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 5 - MerrimentPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center April 19-April 21, 2013 Fauré, Satie and Ravel are quintessential French impressionists, composers who with a stroke of the pen create images, scenes and vignettes of emotion with the broad palate of the orchestra. Satie’s Gymnopédies shine serenely like the morning sun off a summer lake. French pianist, Philippe Bianconi performs Ravel’s Concerto in G, jazz inspired with one of the most beautiful middle movements of any concerto, and Fauré’s elegant Ballade. The orchestra... | Monterey Symphony | 04/19/13- 04/21/13 | Carmel by the Sea |
Concert 6 - EcstasyPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center May 17-May 19, 2013 Dubravka Tomsic is an invaluable asset to Monterey Symphony, a frequent guest artist, a confidant to Joan De Visser and the one to whom was entrusted the selection of Monterey Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway. As an artist, she dazzles audiences with the ease and brilliance of her playing. On this program she conveys the ecstasy of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, a piece so perfect in its construction that it was said to have rescued the composer from years of depression. A... | Monterey Symphony | 05/17/13- 05/19/13 | Carmel by the Sea |
Days and Nights FestivalPresented by Days and Nights Festival at Hidden Valley Music Seminars August 24-September 9, 2012 The Days and Nights Festival will present a series of performances across music, dance, theater, poetry and film in collaboration with Hidden Valley Music Seminars and the Henry Miller Librar — August-September (exact dates to follow). | Days and Nights Festival | 08/24/12- 09/09/12 | Carmel |
First Night MontereyPresented by First Night Monterey December 31, 2012 A community celebration of the arts, FNM is an affordable, alcohol-free family celebration. A creation of activities, colors, lights, musical entertainment and performances unfolds on New Year's Eve in Historic Downtown Monterey for First Night Monterey as we dance, play, act, perform, create and sing our way into 2013! The Monterey Conference Center will be transformed into a magical celebration of the arts through lights, characters, performances and activities that are... | First Night Monterey | 12/31/12 | Monterey |
Jazz Bash by the BayPresented by Dixieland Monterey at Monterey Conference Center March 1-March 3, 2013 Come and enjoy great music and dancing marathon!!! Great event for whole family! Featured bands and musicians: Titan Hot Seven, Three Clarinets: Draga/Vaché/Meijers w/Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, High Sierra Jazz Band w/Marc Caparone, The Barehanded Wolfchokers, Bob Schulz' Frisco Jazz Band, Jerry Krahn Band, Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, Tom Hook, Banjo Antics: Dendle/Erickson/Ryan/Westenhofer, Jason Wanner, Mark Allen Jones, Crown Syncopators Ragtime Trio (1 hr),... | Dixieland Monterey | 03/01/13- 03/03/13 | Monterey |
Monterey Bay Blues FestivalPresented by Monterey Bay Blues Festival at Monterey County Fairgrounds June 22-June 24, 2012 The 27th annual Monterey Bay Blues Festival is scheduled for June 22, 23 & 24, 2012 at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Blues lovers will kick off the summer with talented Blues, R&B, Gospel, and Zydeco performances that should not be missed! The Monterey Bay Blues Festival has become a weekend destination for amazing music. The Monterey Marriott is the host hotel for the 2012 Fetival. Make sure to reserve your room early to get the reduced rates... | Monterey Bay Blues Festival | 06/22/12- 06/24/12 | Monterey |
Recital - AnticipationPresented by Monterey Symphony at Sunset Center February 23-February 24, 2013 A piano can be an orchestra itself in the hands of a master, so like a seventh inning stretch, we give the orchestra a break while the piano plays on. In all its magnificence, the Symphony’s Hamburg Steinway sits centerstage and alone in this feature performance with Spanish pianist Josu de Solaun. One of classical music’s fast rising stars, De Solaun wowed audiences with his Monterey Symphony debut (Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3) in January 2011.... | Monterey Symphony | 02/23/13- 02/24/13 | Carmel by the Sea |
Red White & Blues in the ForestPresented by Forest Theater Guild at Forest Theater Guild July 4, 2012 Join us July 4th for a Blues celebration featuring Red Beans & Rice live on stage! Plenty of food will be on hand, including BBQ, corn, and a watermelon dinner. Even begins at 6:30p.m. and goes until 9:30p.m. $10 general admission. | Forest Theater Guild | 07/04/12 | Carmel by the Sea |
West End Celebration 2012Presented by Moore Media PR August 24-August 26, 2012 The 2012 West End Celebration is excited to announce this years diversity theme, which will bring an eclectic mix of musicians, artists, vendors, food and entertainment from around the globe. This cultural event will offer attendees an epic and worldly experience of diversity with friends, family and community, with a colorful fusion of musical acts from Jazz, Soul/R&B to Reggae, Folk, Indie and Americana. Sand City’s 11th Annual West End Celebration will benefit at risk youth,... | Moore Media PR | 08/24/12- 08/26/12 | Sand City |